GATE

First of all, do not say that you want to crack GATE. Cracking GATE is very difficult- there are more than 100,000 people trying to do it and only about 2000 seats including NITs. But if you study your Bachelor subjects in the right way, GATE will automatically come to you. No extra preparation is needed. Take a look at GATE syllabus, note down the important ones, and note down the important topics in them. For those subjects at least, use Standard text books, understand the topics well by doing practice problems at the end of the chapters (like doing exercises in Cormen). You live in Google era, every topic is just a click away. So, there is no excuse for saying teachers in college are bad. With one click you can get MIT lectures or NPTEL lectures. For doubt clearance, there are GATE Overflow, fb groups, Stack Overflow etc. So, everything is there for you. Those who use them will be far ahead of others. So, all the best for you. I hope you do not need to crack GATE at the end of 4 years. Wish you shall just walk through it 🙂

Preparing for GATE while doing Bachelors

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If you are a bachelor student, see GATE syllabus, identify your Bachelor subjects which are relevant for GATE and do them properly. After studying those from standard books (never use local author book as your knowledge will be corrupted) those portions, practice previous GATE questions (without looking at the solution). Also, try top lectures and courses for all important subjects. A common mistake is to ignore mathematics, aptitude, and programming – but this is suicidal. Do, programming a lot- because they make the concepts stronger (not copying programs but implementing algorithms on your own). Similarly, mathematics – especially discrete mathematics, and aptitude fetch a lot of marks for GATE as they are applied even in other subject questions. Kenneth Rosen for Discrete Mathematics and Cormen for Algorithms are 2 must be followed books.

Some common mistakes:

Going for easy materials — easy materials might not be correct or complete and this will reflect in your GATE rank. You can see some of the blogs by previous toppers, and see what resources they followed — they will be standard books and previous GATE questions. Never get fooled by propaganda by coaching institutes — they use it to get money from you, use it to facilitate the toppers and thus to get more people like you. Some of them even run paid PR campaigns in social media — well those with common sense know what to follow, but other people are a lot and they are the fish 😉

Studying solutions — in GATE there will be a lot of new questions and so there is practically no use even if you carry with you the entire previous year solutions

Wrong GATE materials — yes, these are abundant. Once I saw a GATE material — do not know the name of the institute — but it was horrible. At least a mistake in every line of text. Still, many ignorant students follow such materials — simply due to the word “GATE” in it and they find it easy to by heart. Such people won’t even get 30 marks in GATE. Telling again — GATE syllabus, previous year questions, standard books and standard videos are self-sufficient to top GATE.

Studying without thinking — While studying you should ask questions like “why” and “how”. Never believe anything just because some teacher told it. Then only you understand concepts. Programming is an alternate way to solidify concepts. GO classroom is where you can find programming questions relevant for GATE CSE.

GATE CSE exam is where 99% of the takers fail to get a good rank. Still, this exam is way easy than say IIT-JEE because most aspirants are preparing the wrong way. So be careful in listening to others.

If you believe you are correct and others around you are wrong, you might be right. But, to top GATE you have to beat quality people and not just those around you. So you can help others, but first, help yourself.

Taking Advises

I have been with GATE students for about 3 years now. The worst thing they do is to take advice from seniors or from friends/relatives who have no good knowledge about GATE. Ideally, one should never take advice from those who have not got a top 100 rank or those who have spent enough time for GATE. I can say this from my personal experience- my advice 3 years before would have been much different from what I say now. Some must avoid things for a good rank:

Never prepare for GATE by practicing questions from substandard materials like <ABC> test booklet or any similar test booklet. Why? Because they are not prepared by proper faculty (not even by those who teaches in coaching institutes) and have plenty of typing as well as conceptual mistakes. More over there are lots and lots of previous years GATE/TIFR/CMI/ISI questions which are way better than any questions that are being provided by any coaching center.

Never pick and choose for GATE study. Anything in the syllabus is important. You have to ensure >75% marks to be safe in GATE. For this you have to follow your study properly and while practicing tests ensure that scoring is consistently over 70. If not identify what your problem is and fix it soon. Just do not wait and just pray for luck in GATE. There is NO difficult portion in GATE worth skipping.

GATE is a competitive exam. Never feel happy with what your friends or fellow aspirants say regarding any solution. You must be good enough to know if a solution is correct or not. I have seen 3 types of people –

Those who identify fault in their solution quickly

Those who follow what the majority says

Those who follow what they believe and never changes them

As expected most of the GATE toppers belong to category 1 and the other 2 really struggle however hard they prepare.

Important Topics for GATE

These can also be identified by seeing the Topic listings of the GO pdf.

C, DS & Algorithms

This is the most important subject according to GATE point of you. Approximately 25% Questions in Gate come from above topics and all are related with each other. If you are good in this subject this will not only help you in GATE but also after it in so many written exams and interviews of Different IITs and IIITs.

C programming Questions are mostly based on finding outputs which contain some pointers, static variables, arrays, strings, functions etc. There won’t be questions which are dependent on library functions – like return value of printf, various format specifiers etc. and also those on compiler dependent and undefined behaviour parts.

Understand Different Problems on Stack, Queue, Link List. Generally they come in a C program. But you can solve them only if you know the logic – try implementing stack using queues and vice-versa. Properties of Heap. Deletion and insertion of items in the heap.

Finding Complexity : Very Important Topic. You need to practice more and with every problem you solved. Sometimes direct question comes related to complexity like give complexity of Heap sort. But mostly you are given a code or question. You need to find best average case complexity of that problem. So try to find complexity of every algorithm or program which you practice. Also understand properties of complexity. Sometimes relation between them is asked.

Searching and Sorting Problems. Difference between Different Techniques and how to apply them on different real life problems.

Theory Of Computation :

Important Points :

Finite Automata covers approximately 50% questions from TOC. So give it more time then others. Do questions related to finding minimum number of states, NFA to DFA conversion, Closure Properties of finite automata, Finding Regular Expressions,mealy moore machine etc.

Turing Machine making and expressive power of different type of turing machine. ( also useful for interview )

Compiler Design

Important Points :

Parsing : there is always a question related to parsing. You need to practice all parsing technique because there is also chances for linked questions. finding first and follow, LL(1)-LR(1)-SLR-LALR-CLR.

Precedence and Associativity of operators.

Finding value from expression tree.

Ambiguous grammar.

Databases

Important Points :

No gate paper completed without Normalization. This is very easy once you understand and can solve questions quickly. Questions are like Finding normal form ( comes 70% times in gate paper ), finding candidate keys, decomposition of relation, loss less join and dependency preservation have more probability to come.

SQL Queries also asked in the paper. Practice select clause properly with properties of having,group by, any ,all, exits. Question may come with relational algebra in common data section.

Practice joins because there is more probability of tricky questions from them.

Finding View and Conflict serializability. Finding Recoverable and Cascade schedule.lock based, Two phase, time stamp and graph based protocol with there properties like deadlock freedom, starvation freedom.

formation and structure of B and B+ tress. primary and clustering index. Numerical Questions from no of block required in indexing of different type, collision resolution, minimum and maximum no of nodes in B,B+ trees.

Important Points :

Addressing Modes : Theory and questions

Numerical related to program counter after some instruction, no of one address-two address instructions, Values after shift and rotate instructions, horizontal and vertical programming related questions.

Numerical Problems on Speed up of pipeline, time taken to complete instruction in pipeline and non-pipeline architectures, Hazards in pipeline, hazards removal, branch penalty etc.

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If you are getting a good IIT, no need to read this. Otherwise, please analyze your situation.

Can I do better?

Did something went wrong for me during GATE?

If your answer is yes, do consider giving a second chance. Start from analyzing your GATE exam. mark down the topics you couldn’t answer. Fix those topics properly. There are students who have gone from 10,000 to 100 and there are students who have gone from 1000 to 3000. So, simply don’t repeat. Analyze and then repeat.

Are you good in academics? If so do consider a direct Ph.D. or MS Research in IITs. Even good IITs/IISc. starve for good research candidates and so mostly GATE rank won’t be an issue here. IITM usually calls around 1500 GATE rank and some new IITs go beyond and some even consider good academic profile and just a valid GATE score. You can see respective IIT tabs here.

If you are academically strong do consider MS or even direct Ph.D. abroad. A 9 pointer might fail in GATE, but he/she might get preference while applying abroad. While applying to foreign places do consider making a Latex Resume and CV. Though small this might create a good impression.

Some other national level colleges are also there like IIST for Machine Learning.

Try for PSU jobs which have their own exams like SAIL. More info on “PSU” tab here.

If you are fed up with studies (I don’t know why you want to do M.Tech. then) then consider joining any other institute. Many of them have their own tests as well as consider GATE. You can see “Others” tab here.

Joining a State level college

Highly discouraged, unless you find a worthy faculty to work under because the overall environment won’t be that good.

Those who have done M.Tech. from decent NITs have scored 2 digit ranks in GATE and then went to PSUs.

Doing really good in M.Tech. (like being University topper) in a state university, can get you INSPIRE scholarship and a Ph.D. admit almost anywhere in India. But scope of an average performer is pretty bad.

IITKgp CS: 144 in last round and ~200 in spot
IITKgp IT: 180 in last round and ~220 in spot
(IITKgp had internal sliding and those who opted for inter disciplinary branches got promoted to CS before spot round happened)

IITD MCS: Had interview cutoff which was ~230 rank
IITD EET: Had interview cutoff which was 470 rank in 2015 and 441 in 2016

IITG: 291 in last round and ~320 in spot. ~800-1200 for OBC
IITG TCS: Had interview

IITH: was mostly similar to IITG/R but I don’t have exact values.
IITR: ~320 in spot, now has self financing seat for which last rank should be slightly lower

The cutoffs in 2016 seem much higher for interviews – IITK and IISc CDS for example and I have no explanation for that. Also, one of the most disturbing factor in 2015 was IITK, IITH wasting tens of seats for the reluctance to do a spot round or maintaining a waiting list. Shows how good the administrators in those places are – they simply didn’t do anything to fill the seats when students left and joined IITB/IISc on further rounds. IITKgp Director being a great person was ready to do a spot round in 2015 though it was the first time they conducted direct admit and he saved the lives of many students. Hope IITK and H learn something.

But things changed in 2016, due to the great effort of Prof. Ganguly IITK conducted a last round admit and more than 20 people got admitted. IITM also had many rounds of call letters to ensure proper seat filling. Hope 2017 also follows the same and no seat is vacant.

For CCMT admits to NITs and some central universities, full data is available for all categories. This can be used for the last rank estimates of SC, ST, PH categories even at IITs.

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Preparation

While during B.Tech as any normal student I also wanted to write GATE. As a natural step I thought of coaching. But due to lack of good coaching centers nearby, I didn’t join any. Instead, bought GATE forum materials. I tried to solve their questions, but couldn’t proceed more than 2 pages as they were quite tough for me. So, thinking GATE is another dream I won’t be able to reach, I left my GATE desire and decided to go for placement, which was a rather easy choice.

Expectation

I had spent hours for studying during my +2. I studied in a very good school and took the best tuition classes in my city. My entrance score was good enough to get me a seat in the best engineering college of the state, but I couldn’t answer even 1 question with confidence during IIT-JEE. Now, I’m in a government engineering college without proper teachers in any semesters (teachers were either transferred every year or they went for higher studies), no lecture notes, and no competition for ranks in the class. Moreover, the time I spent studying during B.Tech is no where comparable to that I spent for during my Engineering entrance. In such a situation, I couldn’t even dream of cracking GATE. So, I never bothered to check how GATE exam is. All I knew was that GATE is for 3 hours and it contains 65 MCQs.

Exam

Still I wrote GATE just to see how it is- I have to thank BCCI for not scheduling any cricket match that day. I hadn’t seen even 1 previous year GATE question paper. My only aim was not to get disqualified (I heard from somewhere that there’s a disqualification mark for it). Exam started. I was happy as I could attempt some questions.

Result

Results came. My rank was 330 out of more than 107,000 candidates. I couldn’t imagine how it could have happened. Were the other candidates worse than me?

What all went wrong?

Now, when I think of what all helped me during GATE, following points come to my mind:

In B.Tech we hardly had any lectures. So, we were forced to study by ourselves. As one of our lecturer told us, the most important thing our college teaches us is to learn on our own. (She studied in that college only). And the advantage of learning by ourselves is that we can crack most questions even if it is twisted.

I was following some printed notes and local textbooks till semester 4. My GPA wasn’t bad but I never learned anything. During S5 someone told us to buy standard textbooks which were prescribed in the syllabus. I gave it a try. My GPA remained same but I was happy because I felt like I learned something. Moreover, whatever I learned from those books still remain with me. More than anything, I realized that learning is not getting everything written in the text, but understanding a small information from reading a large portion of text. This small information is what is needed for GATE.

Though quite lazy, I used to do all the lab assignments. I never referred any previous code in doing any assignment as I preferred to write my own code. Did this help in GATE? – Yes, I could write all the questions in C, DS & algorithm and DBMS in GATE with 100% confidence. (Unfortunately, we had OS lab only after the GATE exam). Many questions from Compilers, CO and Digital were also done in our practicals.

I was quite poor in Engineering Mathematics. I was following a local textbook for it as I thought why I needed to learn Mathematics to become a Software Engineer. So, I couldn’t answer most of the Mathematics questions in GATE. Due to lack of preparation, questions from OS, Networks and CO weren’t easy for me. Still, I could apply my logic, substitute answers from choices and solve many of them.

Due to lack of coaching, I didn’t know any method to solve any GATE question. So, I had to use just my limited knowledge and logic to solve them. Still, I was able to solve more than half of the questions as they were just testing the basic subject knowledge. During IIT-JEE I was trained in solving entrance questions. But, during exam, I couldn’t attempt any. The coaching had made the problem solving methods kind of hardcoded in my mind and I couldn’t even understand any question outside that. This hardcoded problem solving methods were lacking for me in GATE and that helped me in solving many questions. With 180 minutes for 65 questions, I never felt the need for any shortcut methods also.

A Caution

My GATE mark was 53.66/100. Still, I could get into IISc due to OBC reservation and due to the fact that competition wasn’t that tough in 2010. But now, to safely get into IITs/IISc, a mark of more than 70/100 is needed. It’s very much possible for you. Don’t study 10-12 hours a day. Study till you can, but do it properly. Enjoy whatever you learn. You can crack anything…

Please read the questions properly. I lost at least 10 marks in GATE, as I misread or misinterpreted the question and this is a common trend.

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Many GATE aspirants asked me to write a blog about my journey to IIT Kanpur. So here it goes …
You all might have asked many GATE toppers about their hardwork and preparation, and you would have found that the majority of them were college toppers or people who used to do coding since 8th or 10th standard, and that they had done coding in all online platforms. So you might have concluded that you’re not upto that level and it is impossible for you to get a good rank in GATE.
Many aspirants don’t start their preparation due to this fear (even i used to think the same earlier), but the million dollar fact is that GATE doesn’t require all these skills at all! GATE is an awesome exam which only tests your basics in computer science and your aptitude. I know it is very easy to say, and you guys may not believe until you see some examples. So for this, take my example :

I am Gaurav (fb.com/gmamgain) from Delhi. On 18th october 2013, I got offer letter of TCS. I was very happy that now I would also be earning money like others. I was sure that CAT is not my cup-of-tea, as my 12th percentage and B.Tech percentage was less than 80 and it really counts a lot to get a seat in IIMs for a general category student. I didn’t think of GATE, as my technical portion was very weak. In fact, I learned C language after 2nd year so that I will have something to speak in the interviews for a job because many of my friends knew C/C++ from school but I was from medical background in 11th and 12th standard.

Well, just like the other guys, I appeared in gate 2014 and as expected I didn’t qualify the exam (16000 something rank). In that last semester I also appeared for AFCAT and got selected for SSB. I prepared for that and after giving a good performance on Day 1 at Dehradun AFCAT centre, I was pretty sure that I will qualify. However, I was screened out. First time I felt little bit bad and concluded that one needs some luck also to crack SSB (this is only my perception). So I decided I will choose some different career and after some calculations I opted to write GATE and aimed to get a single digit rank but that was very difficult atleast for a guy like me. So I planned to give atleast 2 years to achieve that target as I had to start from scrap and also I was waiting for my joining in the company. Then I thought to take coaching untill my joining comes and I joined one of the institute (MADEEASY) in Delhi and started my preparation from june 22nd,2014 . Daily I used to waste 3 hours to do up and down from home to institute and classes were on an average 6 hrs a day and we didnt get any off on weekends. So I hardly used to give only 1 -2 hrs a day for my preparation as it was sure that I would leave the institute whenever my joining comes. I didnt even dream to get under 1000 rank in gate 2015 but something else was written in my destiny. I got joining on 16th feb,2015 and my coaching was also over on 27th december. At that time I didnt even bother to read any standard textbook. I just solved madeeasy workbook (excluding algo , data str,software engg as i postponed it to solve later) and that too only one time and only those questions which were easy. In the workbooks there were some previous year questions and apart from that I didnt try to touch previous year question bank. I was completely hopeless and sad that again my parent’s money is going to be wasted . Now 40 days were left for GATE and it was not possible for me to solve workbook one more time and all previous year questions . Also I gave only 12 tests out of 36 (only 2 full length tests out of 12) just because lack of time. I was only revising my classrom notes .I don’t know how but I started studying more than 10 hours in the month of january. I revised my notes 3 times and left out some topics also. I studied software engg one time in november but i didnt revise it and thought it would come in 1 or 2 marks. I was just wishing to get a rank under 1000 so that next time I can confidently write GATE to fight for a rank in single digit .

GATE exam day :

Then came the day of GATE (7th Feb 2015). I was only relying on notes and i sticked to basics only as i did very less pratice . It was set 2 and I was very disappointed to see 6 marks from software engg but i didn’t think about rank and I was very calm as I already had packed bag and got ticket of kerala to join TCS. Also there were 7 -8 questions which i didn’t even try to read and simply skipped those and lost all hope to see a good rank as in my mind many negative thoughts were there .
1. I didn’t practice previous year papers.
2. I didnt finish test series.
3. I was never in top 20 among only 200 students in the institute classroom tests.
4. This is my first little bit serious attempt and I need minimum two years to get a seat in any of the IITs.
Somehow I scanned the paper once and I was left with 5 minutes and I was very much sad that I have not attempted many questions. I was lucky that in those 5 minutes I solved three 2 marks question and one 1 mark question and all were correct and finally the time was up and I took a deep breath and felt relaxed. There was a smile on my face that I have put my 7 months efforts in those 3 hours.Then I left the examination hall and reached the dominos near botanical garden metro station with my friends
and then we discussed some questions also and decided not to discuss questions anymore as It was hurting whenever someone was proving other’s marked question wrong.

After GATE exam :

Finally I reached home and started completing all the formalities to join TCS.
In the GATE COMPUTER SCIENCE facebook group I found that I have done silly mistakes in 7-8 questions. Things had gone haywire.
Then I went to Kerala and made some new sweet friends there . We all enjoyed a lot but destiny wanted something else and result was declared on 11th march in the evening. I got AIR 130 (64.83 normalized marks and 65.67 actual marks). It was an unexpected result for me . I was little sad also as I wanted a single digit rank and UNFORTUNATELY I got a rank in which I can get a seat in some old IITs but I was happy also that my another year will be saved with this rank. Later I found that 39 questions were correct out of 52 (poor accuracy just because lack of practice) . I left for Delhi on 12th march after resigning my job.

Admission process :

After then there was a real battle for me to get admission in IIT D or IIT K otherwise I decided to go IIT M but I was so much exhausted that I left my preparation and I compromised to IIT M in my mind . Then call letters of IITK and IITD came and as expected I was shortlisted in both of them . I had two weeks for IIT K written preparation . Again I quickly revised notes of ALGO , DATA STRUCTURE , OS ,DBMS,DISCRETE MATHS ,TOC ,COMPUTER NETWORKS (only IP addressing portion) . Thats it . My preparation was very poor . I just wanted to get shortlist for interview so as to get a nice experience there . I reached KANPUR and enjoyed the beauty of campus. Finally ,we all got the question paper in our hand . I didnt expect that pattern . 30 questions were there to be solved in 2.5 hours (in GATE there were 65 questions to be solved in 3 hours) . So It was a challenge from there side that they are giving more time to solve . I found the level of exam slightly above than actual GATE and also 24 questions were multiple choice correct and there was negative marking in that also. 6 questions were fill in the blanks and without negative marking . So the paper was of 90 marks. I solved only 22 questions and then came back to hostel and started predicting my marks . As my accuracy was not good in GATE also . So I was expecting around 40 marks and hoped to get selected for the interview. Then the result was declared after few hours and LUCKILY my name was on direct admit list . 19 were given direct admit who scored 51+ marks (I was astonished with my accuracy this time ) and 47 were shortlisted for interview(42+). UNFORTUNATELY I didn’t get interview experience but I had a chance for the same in IIT D . Then I appeared in IIT D written test followed by an interview . It was a nice experience .I got shortlisted for the 2nd round in which there was one interview . My interview was not that good and not that bad. The result was out after 3 days and I got 2nd waitlist in that which was expected to clear for sure . Now it was really very difficult to find which was best for me. Finally I decided to join IIT K .

Conclusion :

So friends , this was a story of a normal guy like you . If I can have a journey from 16000 rank to 130 rank in just 7 months with a weak preparation then those who are qualified in their 1st attempt ,why can’t they come in top 50 next year ?

This blog was just to motivate you that anyone can crack GATE exam but don’t do weak preparation like me and don’t set 2 years span to achieve your target . Gate can easily be cracked in 1st attempt itself .

Below are some suggestions to you from my side :

1. You must follow standard textbooks in case of a doubt.
2. Solve all previous year papers to get a confidence (take help from gateoverflow.in as there are errors in EVERY book).
3. Attempt test series also just to improve your time management (rank in test series doesn’t imply anything as answer key is not 100 percent correct).
4. Join this group https://www.facebook.com/groups/core.cs/ . Don’t spend too much time here . Utilize your time to solve problems posted by GATE aspirants. It will really help you in revising your concepts and getting your morale boosted.

Strategy to attempt GATE exam:

First of all , believe in yourself . Don’t lose hope .Stay confident . Attempt easy questions which require few seconds to solve in the first scan .Then push the level up and attempt little bit time taking question and continue this procedure . In this way , you will never ever run out of time. Attempt first question with full confidence . If you are not getting the answer then attempt second question with the same confidence. If still not getting answer then attempt 3rd 4th 5th question with the same confidence level. Your confidence level must not decrease because the questions which are tough for you will be tough for all. Those questions may not affect your rank but don’t lose even a single mark in easy questions, that will affect your rank exponentially.

After GATE (If result doesn’t come out in your favour):

Remember one thing . It takes time to build a career. Don’t be in a hurry because It may lead you to a weak foundation. It’s better to give some more time so that you can get a strong foundation which can lead you to the place where sky is the limit…
Good Luck Friends !!!!

Hello GATE-2016 Aspirants!
I attempted GATE 2015 and Qualified with AIR-852.
I have some general suggestions for you all:

1. Never Skip any subject , I skipped Software Engg and had suffered a loss of 3 ques.

2. Regularly practice ” Mathematics ” (Engg+Discrete) , the common mistake that most of the candidate makes is they prepare hard technical subjects and leave Maths for future( the future that is uncertain to come).

3. There is no particular weightage of subjects in GATE, prepare every subject equally.

4. Don’t try to solve practice questions without even going through the actual concepts (theory) by your own – This is especially for the students those who have joined some coaching.
[ Remember, there is no shortcut to success. ]

5. Smart work will bring you under AIR-100 , hard work may bring lesser rank. I am saying so because I am a victim.

Thanks for reading this. Prepare hard and be open to new questions and concepts.

So guys now when u r going to prepare for GATE-2016…
I like to share my experience of GATE-Exam….
I am following GATE since 2012….
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if u want to get good rank and score in GATE u guys need a good strategy and smart work…. I would like to tell u some points,,,,
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1.) Most important point is to be Regular… Be regular wid ur subject and revise complete subject regularly… and try to revise completed subject at least once in every 2-weak….
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2.) Divide the subjects into various parts according to their level…
a.) Beginner : – Data Structure, Digital Logic Design, Discrete Mathematics, Computer Organization.
b.)Middle : – Theory of Computation(Automata), Algorithm Analysis and Design, Computer Networks, Operating System.
c.)Advance :- Compiler Design, Engg. Mathematics, Web Technology, Software Engineering……
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3.) Study one subject at a time.
4.) Attend exams and tests regularly.
5.) If u don’t get good grade in test then don’t feel sad and figure out ur mistake,, and then start again with double power….
6.) Always keep ur mind calm and ready to learn.
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7.) When u start study feel like u don’t know anything, While at the time of exam be confident that u know everything….
8.) Don’t find only correct option, but also prove why other options are wrong…..
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9.) Most of all weather any kind of situation is there best/worse Always believe in urself and God….
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So this is my experience about GATE-Exam….
Finally I would like to say All the Best…..